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Well, this stint was short lived. The iPod photo, with it’s lovely features and wonderful screen… is once again going back to it’s creator to work out some serious stamina issues. I was hopefull when it first came back in the mail that it was working better, but a few days with it has shown the same bizzare battery drain issues as before. I called Apple to work things out with them, and they feel it could possibly be a defect in the unit, rather than the battery. That would explain the constant drain problem, and while the playtime is not what it should be. I can’t even get through an 8-hour work day. It looks like the unit will be replaced this time through. I wish they would have spent more time with the unit, or called me when they could not find a problem when they had it last time. They did offer to replace it at a local Apple store, but unfortunately, there are no local stores. 🙁

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That’s what I found today on a refering link from a search engine in the site stats. Not sure what to make of that.

I had quite a little scare here that I forgot to write about. I bought an iPod photo last month for my trip to china in august. Unfortunately for me… the battery started acting up two weeks after I got it… I started to freak out thinking that maybe my car adaptor was frying batteries or something. It would charge ok, but the charge would only last for 6-8 hours, and if I left it over night it would be deadthe next day. I sent it off to Apple to see what they could come up with. I was quite concerned when the dispatch showed up as returning the original item. But the pack arrived today, and my ipod was inside, fully charged. Yea! Maybe I messed up the charging profile or something. I’m just happy to have my iPod back!

I discovered today, and confirmed with Symantec tech support, that there is a problem running Symantec Client Security (antivirus) on windows XP. Starting a week ago, we began to notice here that random machines were showing up with 20 or more “disconnected” drive letters. I’m not talking about the normal disconnected drives we have had since Windows 95. These phantom drives go no where, and cannot be disconnected or remapped. And they are not nice enough to stay off “normal” drive mappings. If a mapped drive letter is “taken” by this bug, you cannot get it back. And If all driver letters are taken, then you are truly screwed. Attempting to “net use /delete” results in an error telling you the resource cannot be found. Trying “net use \\server_name\drive” results in an error telling you the resource is in use. Fun fun fun.

We tried service packs, hot fixes, deleting profile, and creating new users. No luck what so ever. Luckily, after some brainstorming, I decided to try removing Symantec Client Security v10. This corrected the issue.

Symantec at this point does not know why this problem is occurring, or when a fix may be found. The current estimate is for MR1 in 4-8 weeks.

The Red Ferret Journal seems to have broken a story that showed up on slashdot earlier last week. It’s the printer I have always dreamed of building… only better and crazy fast. This thing is a monster. Some quick math by Bad[k] comes up with a consumption of about 1 liter of ink per hour… and that come to about 9000-12000 pages of full color prints.